A.'-Entertainment Weekly 'How rarely the knacks for wisdom and for cracking wise come in one single, satisfying package. Willett is effortlessly, furiously funny. Either that, or to die laughing.'-The New York Times 'Poignant and funny, mean and tender, Willett's novel is exuberantly original.'-Publishers Weekly(starred review) 'The author mows down worlds of artistic and psychological twaddle with killer sprays of language. Willett whips up in this book, either one may qualify as a reason to kill. Amid the antic, hilarious, gender-bending battle of the sexes that Ms. Willett's satirical abilities remain deliciously undimmedâ€¦. Jincy Willett is a fearless writer, capable of startling the reader into rueful laughter at every turn.'-Tom Perrotta, bestselling author ofLittle Children 'Riotous hugely funny.

I promise you will laugh constantly and to the point of stomach damage.'-Augusten Burroughs, bestselling author ofRunning with Scissors andDry 'Audaciously titled, cleverly constructed,Winner of the National Book Awardis an elegy wrapped inside a satire, a sorrowful meditation on the mysteries of sibling love and rivalry concealed within a bitterly funny chronicle of literary buffoonery. Brilliant, totally original, and worthy of its title.

So: hurrah for Jincy Willett, and for her funny, charming, humane, and altogether well-wrought piece of fiction.' -Kurt Andersen, author of Heydey 'As audacious as its title, weird and universal and touching and hilarious all at once.'-Anna Quindlen, bestselling author of Rise and Shine, 'The funniest novel I have read, possibly ever. A.'- Entertainment Weekly 'How rarely the knacks for wisdom and for cracking wise come in one single, satisfying package. Either that, or to die laughing.'- The New York Times 'Poignant and funny, mean and tender, Willett's novel is exuberantly original.'- Publishers Weekly (starred review) 'The author mows down worlds of artistic and psychological twaddle with killer sprays of language.

Jincy Willett is a fearless writer, capable of startling the reader into rueful laughter at every turn.'-Tom Perrotta, bestselling author of Little Children 'Riotous hugely funny. I promise you will laugh constantly and to the point of stomach damage.'-Augusten Burroughs, bestselling author of Running with Sciss ors and Dry 'Audaciously titled, cleverly constructed, Winner of the National Book Award is an elegy wrapped inside a satire, a sorrowful meditation on the mysteries of sibling love and rivalry concealed within a bitterly funny chronicle of literary buffoonery. 'The funniest novel I have read, possibly ever.

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